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“A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes, Sweet bath, suavely Scented with ointments, has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.”

Men Kind Long Hands Women Hair Genius Clothes Perfection Skins Remains Artistic Atmosphere Knees Tone Scent Bosoms Incomplete Refinement Delicacy Androgyny

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.”

Thinking Soul Certain Liberty Atheism Fool Genius Perfection Absolutes Repose Free Thinking Climax True Genius

Book:The Works of George Berkeley ...: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of vision

Source: The Works of George Berkeley ...: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of vision

“Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.”

Made Imagination Support Reader Genius Succeed Capable Perfection Weak Noble Fancy Qualified Superstitious Extravagance

Book:Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory

Source: Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory

“The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.”

Life Is Genius Conversation Perfection Animated Intercourse Breeding Fervor

Author:Leigh Hunt

“You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.”

Doe Play Perfect Levels Boys Practice Genius Perfection Series Fantastic Not Perfect Holmes Arcs Inhuman Methodology

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.”

Principles Genius Perfection Mark Opening Originality Frontiers Carpe Diem New Frontiers

Book:The Act of Creation

Source: The Act of Creation

“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”

Humor Genius Perfection Poetic Finest Pursuit Of Perfection Poetic License

Book:Carlyle's Works ...

Source: Carlyle's Works ...

“Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.”

Kind Art Hands Age Science Wonder Study Century Particular Hard Work Genius Perfection Universal Art And Science Incline Many Hands

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.”

“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”

“The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.”

Genius Perfection Mark Originality Principal Frontiers Not Perfect New Frontiers

Author:Robert Schumann

“See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.”

Doe Inspiration Genius Mountain Creatures Built Perfection Forests Encounters Cracks Nuts Living Creatures

Author:Wayne Dyer